Lizzie Stark

Lizzie Stark (1895-) was a British prostitute who lived in the Small Heath neighborhood of Birmingham, England during the early 20th century.

Biogrpahy
Lizzie Stark was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, England in 1895, and she found work as a prostitute. She was known to be promiscuous, even having several affairs with Tommy Shelby before he fought in World War I. After the war, she decided to change her ways and marry John Shelby, but she occasionally took clients to make money. Tommy Shelby, who wanted to ensure that Stark had moved on, offered her eight dollars for her to service him one last time. She agreed, but Tommy immediately took his money back and concluded that she hadn't changed; he then told John, who decided to break off his engagement with her. However, she remained friends with John, and Tommy continued to see her as a client. In 1922, Tommy hired her as his secretary on the condition that she left prostitution forever, although he later had her seduce a British Army officer guarding Field Marshal Henry Russell's house so that he could blow it up. Shelby had trouble finding the officer so that he could rescue Stark, who was raped, and he eventually found them and killed the officer. Stark concealed her injuries and was initially angry at Shelby, but they would later return to being lovers, and she gave birth to his daughter Ruby in 1924.